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Ghost Scam Trial: Prosecutor Challenges Defendant's Victimization Story

For the defendants in the ghost scam trial to be acquitted, their lawyers must prove, by a preponderance of evidence, that they committed their crimes "out of necessity." "Preponderance of evidence," jurors are told, "means that you must be persuaded that the things the defendant seeks to prove are ... More >>

"Act Of Valor": Recruits Adrenaline Junkies Everywhere

Happiness Economics Says: Quit Your Job and Start Pickling

Every decade has its cult occupations, the subject of a million daydreams​ of the "I'm going to tell my boss to shove it and go [become a DJ / start catering / set up a used-book stall on the banks of the Seine]" variety. In San Francisco, at least, right now the fantasy job seems to involve ... More >>

Your Seasonal Produce Guide: Makrut Limes

​ A weekly series on what to do with your farmers' market impulse buys and CSA box surprises. Makrut (Kaffir) limes have a distinguishable bumpy skin, strong tangy flavor and aromatic fragrance. The leaves and zest are used often in Thai, Cambodian, and Indonesian dishes. The inside of the fruit ... More >>

Why I'm Tired of Sustainable Seafood Articles Like "The End of Fish and Chips"

​Earlier this week, Fast Company published an interesting -- and alarming, in that now ol' familiar way -- story about changing fish populations in European waters. The gist of the story is that the North Sea is warming much faster than other major bodies of water, and important cold-water species ... More >>

Yes, They Can

'I'm Always Writing the Menu as a Poem': An Interview with Dominique Crenn

​Dominique Crenn was born in France but has been working in American restaurants for nigh on two decades. As I was finishing up this week's review of Atelier Crenn, I talked to Crenn about her experience opening a restaurant in Indonesia, the farm she works with, and the meaning of the restaurant' ... More >>

Tres Re/Opens, and a Trio of Bay Area Restaurant Icons Passes

​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Grub Street notes the reopening of the newly christened Tres. Founding partners Eric Rubin and Barry Augus may have moved on to work on their tequila brand, Tres Agaves (hence the name change), ... More >>

Show Dogs Starts Breakfast, Another Mr. Pickle's, and Wok and Go

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Both Eater and Grub Street report that Show Dogs has started serving breakfast sausages and creative hash browns. The new breakfast hours are 8-11 a.m. Monday through Friday, and when the me ... More >>

Beef Curry, Japanese Style: Muracci's vs. Volcano

Jonathan KauffmanVolcano's beef curry, $6.95.​Modern-day diners may spot a box of Golden Curry at Nijiya Market and assume Japanese importers brought curry back from the port of Kolkota, or perhaps it arrived through trade with Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta. But the story of Japanese curry is even twis ... More >>

Bicycle Music Fest, Renegade Craft Fair, Meeting in the Ladies Room, and 400 Blows

Judgment Day plays Saturday at the Bicycle Music Festival​Stringed heavy metal acts operated by bicycle power, teenage dance parties, and legendary country-folk ingénues in the park -- San Francisco has it all this weekend for less than the cost of a few pounds of organic summer fruit. Here's our ... More >>

Tomorrow: Indonesia Day Brings Food, Music to Union Square

alwinsulaiman/FlickrS.F.'s Borobudur will be on hand to make with the food.​Tomorrow might be a good time to indulge in Indonesian food at the 17th annual Indonesia Day celebration in Union Square, the largest such event in the country, according to organizers. The free event also features Bal ... More >>

Don't Sound Like a Tool: How to Pronounce Coffee Regions

​Don't Sound Like a Tool is SFoodie's series of audio pronunciation guides to sort-of-common-but-not-obvious words we keep encountering on wine lists and menus. No more shame, no more pointing, no more godawful imitations of a language you don't speak.Five years ago, when buying coffee all you ... More >>

Quite a Feet

Drink of the Week: Sajen's Beets Q Tisane

T. Palmer​We first discovered Sajen on the first day it sold its inaugural products, turmeric and ginger-turmeric jamu, at the World Vegetarian Day Festival. A little over one year later and the small independent company has distribution through 14 Bay Area retail partners. Beets Q is the newest o ... More >>

Fabric8's Street Food Friday is a Benefit for Disaster Relief. Which Disaster Isn't Exactly Clear

kewlio/FlickrThe gallery's trying to do the right thing.​Hungry to support another street-food event for a good cause? The Mission's Fabric8 Galleries (3318 22nd St. at Valencia) is promising to set aside a portion of the proceeds from tonight's Street Food Friday for hurricane relief in the P ... More >>

Near and Far

Who Wants to Get a Whiff of Flower Smelling of Rotting, Fetid Bodies? You Know You Do -- Head to SFSU This Weekend.

SFSUA stinky weekend is in store...Anecdotally, your humble narrator recalls a story about a local couple who demanded their money back from an area arboretum after their wedding was ruined by an unexpected blossoming of the garden's prize corpse flower. And they don't call it a corpse flower for no ... More >>

The 23rd Annual San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show

Drink of the Week: Sajen's Ginger-Turmeric Jamu

Two Movies Alternate on SFFS Screen

Art House

Peace Out: The S.F. Weekly's Top-10 Suggestions of More Noble Nobels Than Our Pal Al

Chronicle On Vegetarian Meat Substitutes: Now Less Dreadful Than Before!

Chronicle On Vegetarian Meat Substitutes: Now Less Dreadful Than Before!

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

Running Ahmohk

S.F.'s only Cambodian spot is still going strong in its 20th year

Spotlight Reviews

Local albums you may have missed. This week: computer-music master Chris Brown's Talking Drum.

Where the Wild Things Are

A haunting mix of Indonesian music and Shakespearean mystery

Doing Great

Mime Troupe takes a dramatic turn

More Than One Tsunami

Graffiti to Gallery

Andrew Schoultz, the mural artist who's making it big in the gallery by refusing to leave the street behind

Combat Zone

Teaching kids to fight for their rights

Reps Etc.

Zoom Lens

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Reps Etc.

Into the Light

The appeal of shadow theater is the quiet seduction of a dream

Reps Etc.

Best Place to Buy Eclectic Gifts

Market Between Sanchez and Castro

Brother's

Pacific Grin

Pinkies Up

High tea

Hear This

South Pacific

Singapore Slingshot

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Night+Day

Night+Day

Petal Pushers

Orchid collectors, watch your back. Uncle Sam knows what you're up to.